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I am relatively new in the field of immunology as I have just transitioned into a new project from my previous one that is on qPCR. I intend to investigate on the enzyme Paraoxonase in human plasma which is implicated in many diseases associated with the human liver. I am looking for an ELISA kit that is specific to PON1 detection, preferably Sandwich ELISA due to experiment-related reasons. Actually i was looking for an ELISA kit that is used to detect Paraoxonase 1 activity but that will be reserved for another day. For now, it stays at enzyme detection only.
So I was just googling for a Sandwich ELISA kit to buy for my experiment. I have to be clear on this so I would like to know, when it is shown as this:Product Name Paraoxonase-1 (PON1), ELISA Kit Also Known As Human Paraoxonase-1 (PON1) ELISA Kit Product Gene Name PON1 elisa kit
What does the "Human" part of Human PON1 ELISA kit refers to? Is this kit used for detecting human PON1? There are other PON1 ELISA kits with "Hamster", "Monkey", "Fish", "Rabbit", etc listed on the website. So does this mean these ELISA kits are dedicated to detecting these animal-specific PON1? As far as immunology is concerned, what I can gather (months after I have left school) is that if order to detect a protein, specifically, an enzyme, you need an antibody, in this case a primary PON1-antibody which is needed to bind to the antigen (PON1). The primary antibody is then bound by secondary antibody that is then bound by the enzyme HRP that is conjugated with a substrate that is most probably a fluorescent probe and detection is thus made possible by analysing the fluorescence emitted using, say, a microplate reader.
In this case, I want to do a Sandwich ELISA which means I would need a capture antibody, primary antibody, secondary antibody, and a HRP-conjugated fluorescent probe. The capture antibody, as the name suggests, is the ab used for capturing the enzyme and "lock" it in place for the primary ab to bind and subsequently the secondary ab and the HRP-conjugated probe yes?
Please do correct me if I have made any mistakes in my clarification. Any additional info will be very much appreciated.


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List of participants and casualties at the battle of Black Jack
Author: Brown, John , 1800-1859
Date: June 2, 1856
According to this document listing the participants and those "men wounded in the battle of Palmyra or Black Jack," son-in-law Henry Thompson was "dangerously wounded."
Location of Original: KSHS Call Number: John Brown Collection, #299, Box 1, Folder 16
Item Number: 102532 Number of images: 2
Keywords: Black Jack, Battle of; Black Jack, Kansas Territory; Bondi, August; Brown, John, 1800-1859; Brown, Oliver; Brown, Owen; Brown, Salmon; Carpenter, A.O.; Free state militia; Militia; Missourians; Palmyra, Kansas Territory`; Pate, Henry Clay; Proslavery supporters; Thompson, Henry; Whitman, E. B.
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"Up to 60 percent of women around the world experience some form of physical or sexual abuse during their life, and as many as half of all sexual assaults are committed against girls under the age of 16," Banderas says in his video address. "Two million women and girls are trafficked each year into prostitution, forced labour, slavery, or servitude. Young women and girls are often particularly vulnerable to early marriage, female genital mutilation and HIV – putting their health and rights at risk. This is unacceptable, and it must stop now."
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Hi all, I understand that this is my problem and I will have to take a decision, but please let me vent out my angst a bit and do share your pearls of wisdom with me.
The story so far: I have been training for MK marathon and training so far has gone very well. No injuries. I am not by any means fast but I can stay comfortably on my feet for a long time. I have done several 30+km runs and the longest run I have done was 40km in 4 hours and a bit.
My latest half mara PB is 1.53, and I would say I am as ready as one can be.
(Possibly I was feeling even a tad smug and then the No Smug Goddess hit me with a vengeance...)
My 9 year old infected me (poor muppet).
The cold is now turning into a proper chesty cough. I feel cold all the time and it feels like I have quite a lot of, er, snot to expel. My throat is killing me first thing in the morning but all these symptoms get better with Lemsip. I went for a gentle 15km run today and I certainly feel ready to do the big 42.195 in my legs but I did feel light headed.
It is my first marathon so I have not got a time goal (officially) but I would hate to go and have a terrible day or have to pull out.
My idea would be, if I feel like today, run it, and if I get worse (very much worse) not.
So my questions are:
1) Is one allowed take lemsip before a marathon?
2) any of you has experience of running a marathon with a cold?
Advice, spells agains cold, horror stories and (ESPECIALLY) happy endings gratefully received here.
Thank you! xxx
Dunno about the Lemsip, but getting colds and other ailments is very common during a taper. I got one before the Abingdon Marathon last October, but felt better the day before and decided to do it, and came in at around 3hrs46, easily my best for a marathon. If you're right on the throes of a cold, your body probably won't thank you for doing the run - which doesn't mean to say you won't finish. If you seem to be coming out the other end of the cold, I would say go for the marathon. Either way, you always have the option of pulling out - not a ncie option, but an option nonetheless.
Peter: 'but getting colds and other ailments is very common during a taper'. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU.
It is what I wanted to hear.
Your story is certainly a happy ending and gives me hope!
In 2010 I ran Chester Marathon with a cold and went perhaps ten minutes slower than I would have expected.
This year I ran London with a cold and had to stop, sweated like a pig all the way round, dizzy, disorientated, lucky to be able to finish.
your call but I would do it
You've got a few days yet, right? So rest, drink lots of fluid, take lots of vit C, zinc, etc. (I know there's conflicting evidence on whether there's any point to taking vit C/zinc when you have a cold but there are times when it's worth a try) and with a bit of luck you should be feeling better by Monday. I hope so anyway - good luck!
It's only Thursday so you still have 3 days to recover and colds can get much better in 3 days. Must be frustrating but I'd try and take loads of zinc and Vit c plus lots of hot fluids and sleep.
Trilla, sorry to hear you havent been well. Wishing you all the best for the marathon & I hope you feel better soon.
I have a marathon on 1st June and was meant to do a 16 miler this weekend, but am full of a chesty cold & feel a bit light headed & dizzy (also due to lack of sleep as up all night for past week coughing)
...should I give the 16 a miss? Can run but only slowly. going up hills makes me wheeze like a 30 a day smoker
Mr Puffy - that was brave, did you finish it ok in the end? did you end up taking some walking breaks?
LTS, you simply have to listen to your body in this case - you're ill, so take some rest. You have plenty of time until the marathon.
If it isn't to far to travel just go start running and see how you feel on the day.
If you are purely going for a pb and would just sign up and run somewhere else the week after then don't bother. But if it's your first or similar just go for it, can always change your mind and just stop if you feel to bad?
D'oh you said it's your first!! so turn up on the day and try if you feel crap just go slower or stop
Hi guys thank you all for your support!
So yesterday I had to come back from work early because I felt so rubbish!! Did not really sleep. This morning I felt much better and to test the waters decided to do my very first ever parkrun! (to great dismay of my other half)
Running **is** magic sometimes.
I will be slower and possibly still coughing and snotty but I think I can really do it!!
I will post here how it goes.
LTS - I am no expert but I think you still have plenty of time and I would not risk a 16 miler if you are not up for it. Hope you too feel better soon!!!
PS Booktrunk I think we are running the same race? I'll come say hello if i see you!
Just to say to all: I HAVE DONE IT!!!
Yes, I should have stayed in bed instead. I was still ill and coughing quite a lot.
Yes, I had a difficult day and finished in a very bad time compared to my long runs and half marathon time.
As i wrote in the MK marathon thread:
I had a bit of a mixed day. As pre my previous post you will know that I am ill with a sore throat and a bad cough and was in two minds about running this but I decided to go for it, on the strength on an ok park run on Saturday (!!).
I have done plenty of 30+km runs in training (I live in a hilly place) and I know, really know, that I can do 6 mins/km for at least 35 km, without problems. My half marathon time is 1.53.
So yesterday I started happy and slow but I started suffering very early on. At mile 12 I had a coughing fit and the heat, which I do not like at the best of times, really affected me. My breathing was all over the place.
I went into complete physical and emotional meltdown. I realised I could not run the race that in normal condition I was capable of. I had (in my head thankfully) a full blown tantrum: this is unfair! I do not want this!! Cough, cough, cough.
I just could not breathe properly and get into my stride. Cough, cough, cough.
So I had 2 option, quit it or develop a race strategy that would allow me to finish in one piece.
I chose b.
I decided to run a mile and walk a mile. I am used to be on my feet for a long time and know that the 20-something km left were not that much, really.
So I did, with focus and determination. Run one, walk one. Cough. Cough a little more. At mile 23 I decided to run the last 3 miles. Because you see, the muscles strenght was there - IS there, it was :"just" my breathing that would not let me run. (In fact, today I ache a little but nothing like I would expect).
I finished in 4.48, obviously not happy with my time but very proud of my mental strenght, proud that on a difficult day I have managed to keep on keeping on!
So I have done my first marathon, but it is unfinished business between me and the distance. Give me a cold day without a cough and me and the big 42.195 are going to have a GRAND day.
I promise you.
PS - just to say that, of course, today I have not stopped coughing for one second (I am rasping like a 40 woodbines a day smokes as i write this) and my throat is killing me. Of eff off you respiratory system!!!
Trilla - well done on completing your first marathon - you should be very happy with your efforts - especially considering how unwell you were leading up to the race & on the day itself.
Although a cough/cold isn't that bad in the grand sheme of things, try training for & running a marathon & it's a different story!
You're right - your next marathon on a cooler day, when you are in full health should seem easier in comparison.
Hope the cough gets better soon.
LTS: THANK YOU, THANK YOU and THANK YOU
Well done, Trilla. It's a decent time. Don't beat yourself up.
Thank you Peter. You are kind!
Try telling my wife that...
Bless you! Can totally commiserate and this weekend took a chance two days into a cold and ran Kent Roadrunner Marathon.... 7 miles in horrific fever, blurred vision. Stopped. Took two paracetamol and ran/walked with a friend eventually finishing in a spectacular personal worst but nevertheless completed it. Now the cold has majorly come out and I'm streaming/coughing. But since I'd endured that horrible winter's training after 3 years not running being injured, nothing was going to stop me. I would advise making sure you don't over push yourself. If I'd have carried on running planned pace I would have surely collapsed, be prepared to change your strategy drastically or even deciding to dnf seriously if you dont feel well


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The chairman and the general secretary of the embattled Police Federation will both retire at the end of next month, the organisation announced today.
Following the Plebgate row and an independent review that revealed millions of pounds held in unaccounted reserves, chairman Steve Williams and general secretary Ian Rennie have both decided to leave the police service and their roles in the Federation.
Mr Williams said: "The Police Federation has faced a turbulent period in its history and there has been much criticism of our organisation and the way certain members behaved.
"When I took up office it was quite clear that as an organisation we were not fit for purpose and that is why I, along with my joint central committee colleagues, commissioned an independent review to help us identify our weaknesses and come up with solutions of how we could do things differently.
"When the independent review was published in January, it delivered a hard-hitting report that clearly showed that we were not delivering what our members wanted, were failing in key areas and that many of our practices were outdated. But it gave the leadership of the organisation a clear mandate, with 91% of the membership surveyed indicating that they wanted change.
"Over the last few months, despite at times some significant challenges and opposition along the way, I have tried to manoeuvre the organisation to a place whereby we can start to deliver what is best for the Police Federation, its members and the British police service as a whole.
"Having reflected on where we now are, I feel that it is only right and proper that PFEW (the Police Federation of England and Wales) elects a new chairman to take this organisation into the next phase."
Mr Williams and Mr Rennie will leave in late May, after the Police Federation's annual conference.
Mr Williams said: " The federation has a vital and important role to play in policing, but I have made no secret of my fears that unless we get this right and embrace the change required others will do it to us, a view echoed recently by the policing minister, Damian Green.
"I have had over 30 wonderful years in policing and during that time I have had the privilege of working with some great people.
"It is in the interest of all those involved in policing that we build a federation that represents the best interests of the brave men and women who police our communities, villages and towns and that we develop an organisation that we can once again say is the voice of policing. That will be the best prize of all."
A review of the Police Federation by charity the RSA published in January found that the body had around £95 million in reserves and assets.
The organisation was deeply divided into local factions, most of which refused to share details of their accounts with the investigators.
Researchers found there were centrally held reserves of £29.5 million and those held by branch boards stood at around £35 million, but there was also another estimated £30 million in separate accounts, details of which were not given to the national heads of the organisation.
The RSA said that subscription rates should be cut by 25% in 2015, subsidised by central reserves, in a bid to hand back some of the money to members.
The federation represents officers from the rank of constable to inspector, and has around 127,000 members in England and Wales.
It became embroiled in the so-called Plebgate row after then-chief whip Andrew Mitchell had a foul-mouthed confrontation with an officer guarding Downing Street in September 2012.
Mr Mitchell, who was accused of calling the officer a ''pleb'', which he denied, was forced to resign his post following a month of intense media interest in the story.
The saga continued the following month when members of the Warwickshire, West Mercia and West Midlands branches met with the politician in his Sutton Coldfield constituency in a bid to clear the air.
Detective Sergeant Stuart Hinton, Inspector Ken MacKaill and Sergeant Chris Jones claimed that he had refused to reveal what he had actually said, but this was apparently contradicted by a secret recording of the meeting.
They were later hauled before MPs to explain what had happened.
Chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee Keith Vaz said: "I am amazed and surprised by the proposed retirement of two people who have been instrumental in instigating reform in the Police Federation.
"Although evidence given to the Home Affairs Select Committee so far has shown examples of bullying and inappropriate behaviour, I assumed that the leadership of the federation was united in seeking fundamental reform.
"These retirements will leave this important organisation with a huge vacuum and leaderless at a time when they need strong direction. It will remain to be seen if the federation will continue on the path of change.
"We will be seeking answers from Sir David Normington, Martyn Mordecai, the treasurer of the federation, and the Home Secretary when they appear before us tomorrow."
Home Secretary Theresa May said: "As chairman, Steve Williams understood that the Police Federation needs to change, and I am sorry that he will be retiring in May.
"Steve has chaired the Federation through a difficult time for policing in England and Wales. He was right to commission the Normington Review, which recommended radical and urgent reform to the Federation.
"If the Federation is to have public legitimacy, the Normington recommendations now need to be implemented, in full and in good time."I wish Steve the best of luck for the future."
College of Policing chief executive Chief Constable Alex Marshall said: "Both Steve Williams and Ian Rennie have worked tirelessly to ensure the voice of the Federated ranks are reflected at the national level.
"They have been the drivers of reform at the Federation and have shown a determination to move the organisation into a new era.
"Both Ian and Steve have worked closely with the College of Policing as we continue to develop our role as the professional body for policing and I wish them the very best for the future.
"We look forward to working as constructively with their successors to help implement the changes recommended in the Normington Review to ensure that we deliver the best for Federated ranks in policing."
Sir Hugh Orde, president of the Association of Chief Police Officers, said: " Since his appointment as chairman in 2012, Steve Williams has shown great determination to modernise the Police Federation so the organisation can effectively represent rank-and-file officers.
"The independent review of the federation, commissioned by Steve, was a vital part of that process and his leadership brought the organisation into a place where it has a critical opportunity to make the necessary changes.
"At a time when reform is so important, the loss of both Steve and Ian Rennie's leadership is a great shame. Both have been passionate about ensuring that the voice of rank-and-file police officers is heard, as it must be.
"I wish them both all the best for the future."


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We are having a staff challenge here at Natures Garden. For this challenge, we have asked each staff member to choose one of their favorite Natures Garden's fragrance oils and create a project pertaining to that fragrance. Creativity is highly encouraged, using the knowledge they have learned while working at Natures Garden. This week's staff challenge was done by Marsha! Marsha has only worked at Natures Garden for a few months, and her project this week was heaven sent.
If there is one thing that Marsha is extremely proud of, it is her family. Marsha says she "has the greatest kids ever!" But, besides being a mom, she especially loves being a Grammy. Currently, Marsha is a Grammy to one special little guy, but is anxiously awaiting the arrival of the two little ones on the way. Both babies are due before the end of this year. Needless to say, she is bursting with excitement at their quickly approaching arrival dates.
One of the most interesting things about Marsha is the fact that she met her husband in prison. She opens her interview with that line, and you look at her, eyes widened at that statement, and think what did she go to prison for? But, don't worry, she spent 30 years working for the prisons in administration. She and her husband both are love birds, not jail birds.
When it comes to free time, Marsha had more than she could handle after retiring from the prison scene. Although she spends as much time with her family and grandchild as possible, she was seeking a fun company to work for. That is how she came to be working for Natures Garden. And, we at Natures Garden love having her as apart of our crew.
For her words of wisdom, Marsha says she has learned a lot over the years. The one thing she would like to share is, "Let problems roll off your back." She advices that keeping things in, weighs your down, and you miss out of so much in life."
When it came time for Marsha's Spotlight Creation, Marsha wanted to make something for her grandson to use in the bath. She also knew she wanted something to do with Noah's Ark. She loved the concept of a Floating Noah's Ark Soap and used her creativity to make it happen. She can't wait until he sees it.


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So, much like The Dacre Arms, The Spice of Life is a lovely place, just outside Blackheath. I had to investigate, after seeing so many positive comments about the place, on this blog, and on loads of other web sites. Comments along the lines of "this is my favourite Indian restaurant, I've been going there for fifteen years, etc etc".
So off we went on Thursday evening. And it wasn't empty, but it was quiet. It was smaller than I expected, but very welcoming and friendly looking.. To be honest, the decor looked as though it hadn't changed since the mid eighties, (which matched the music nicely). But who cares, because the food was absolutely first rate.
Delicious and light, not too fiery, a really nice blend of flavours. We're not meat eaters, so can't comment on that, but the saag paneer, and vegetable dopiaza were lovely, along with some pilau rice, a chipati, and some yoghurt. Great stuff.
They also had a very mysterious looking orange sauce with the poppadoms. When we asked, we were told that it was the chef's own invention, and that it was based on carrots. And the whole lot came to £25.60 including drinks for two people. The only downside is that they don't deliver (but you can pick up a take-away).
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- Your own childhood sweater, running toward you on the body of a little boy in another country, many years later. That's the image Jacqueline Novogratz used to good effect in her TED talk, using it to illustrate a cause and motivate the crowd in a call to action. That sweater sticks in your mind as she moves from the invisible visual to statistics and rationale.
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Sunday, November 16, 2008
Cookies With The Deities
Back in the day, when I lived for a while at Machu Picchu and communed nightly with the Incan deities who still haunt the ancient city, I used to keep my blood sugar afloat through mass consumption of...
Oh fine. I never lived there, never even visited - but, oh, how I wish I could write that line above! I've had the WORST travel lust of late. I constantly find myself thinking of trips I'd like to take, re-living trips I've already taken, or pseudo-planning trips I'm about to embark on any second. Lately, the news is so utterly depressing that I think this harsh reality lends itself nicely to fantasizing about travel, no?
I was recently perusing possible European trips again, but the exchange rate can suck it at the moment. I just ADORE Amsterdam and want so badly to take Tony there, since he's never been, but...sigh...I don't think it's in the cards right now. So, I started looking south...
Recently I was researching Machu Picchu once again (as I have a bajillion times), and have been lusting after South America ever since. Since Buenos Aires is known as the "Paris of South America", I'm positively salivating to visit - and really, the exchange rate is quite decent. Even so, after I calculate the price of a trip for 2, I end up slapping myself in the face for my wanderlust. So, I've been armchair-traveling via my laptop to South America - trying to escape the unending horrendous news regarding our economy.
During my pseudo travels, I came across multiple mentions of a South American cookie delight called Alfajores. Apparently, you haven't quite lived until you've had this cookie; apparently, some folks know what they're talking about. The discovery of this little darling of a cookie makes my faux travels totally worthwhile.
So, before I get on with the recipe for these doll-babies, where are some of your favorite places to travel? Where would you like to go someday?
It was the pictures of these that first did me in - are they not adorable? They reminded me a bit of Parisian Macarons, but perhaps easier to actually accomplish than their appearance-cousin. Well, they were. They were a delight to make and delicious to put in my belly. The texture is incredible - I don't even know quite how to describe it; perhaps it's because of the cornstarch, but the cookie is soft and giving - which is perfect when you have a soft filling such as dulce de leche. The taste of the cookie is light, tangy, slightly buttery - like a soft, light shortbread, which again, compliments the filling perfectly. Confession: we liked these so much, that we couldn't bring ourselves to bring them into work for sharing! Selfish creatures indeed. So, they do cause hoarding, apparently.
5.3 oz. unsalted butter, softened
3.5 oz. powdered sugar
2 tsp. vanilla
5.3 oz. cornstarch
5.3 oz. AP flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
4 egg yolks
can of dulce de leche (Int'l section of grocery store) -or-
Dulce de Leche: take 1 can Sweetened Condensed Milk and remove the label. Without opening the can, poke a few holes in top of can using a can opener or a nail and hammer. Place the can in a saucepan and fill with water so that 2/3 of the can is covered. Boil for 3-4 hours, checking OFTEN that water is at an appropriate level. After 3-4 hours, carefully remove lid and pour into a bowl; stir until smooth. Allow to cool; then chill until consistency thickens.
Using an electric mixer, cream butter and powdered sugar in a medium bowl. Add yolks, one at a time, mixing thoroughly after each egg. Add vanilla and combine.
In another bowl, mix cornstarch, flour, baking powder and then add to butter mixture. Process only until dough is formed. Form dough into round disc and wrap with plastic; chill for at least 2 hours.
Preheat oven to 350F. On a floured surface, roll out the dough to just less then 1/4-inch thick. Cut out 1 1/2 inch rounds and place on lined cookie sheet, about 1 inch apart. Bake for about 10 minutes, or just until the cookies begin to change color on their underside. Remove from oven, remove cookies from pan and place on cooling rack.
Pipe or spread about 1 tsp. room-temperature dulce de leche on a cookie, place another cookie on top and press until filling shows at the edges of cookies. Many times, the edges of Alfajores are then rolled in coconut, but because we don't like coconut flakes, I rolled mine in sugar. ENJOY!
41 comments:
- Clumbsy Cookie said...
Yay! I've beat you Morton! Look who's firt commenting now?!
Those are gorgeous, I think Argentinians should deserve a prize for those little devil cookies. Really, shortbread cookie WITH dulce de leche is just pure perfection. And you can allways close your eyes while eating them, put some tango playing and pretend you're in Buenos Aires!
- November 17, 2008 at 2:46 AM
this actually reminds of me guava bars we make... it's been too long so this is a good visual reminder of how i need to make time to make them. like soon. and who doesn't love dulce de leche!?!?
- November 17, 2008 at 7:26 AM
- Unknown said...
I have been reading your blog for a while now and the alfajores have compelled me to leave my first post. I love alfajores. I first encountered them when I was was an exchange student in Argentina in high school, and I swear I still dream about them (and that was almost 15 years ago now). I also studied in Peru in college, but I had to seek out the few alfajores I found. Those just never measured up to the first, wonderful, amazing cookie, which happen to look almost identical to yours. The only difference was theirs had a dusting of shredded coconut around the edges.
I will be making these at home. oh, and I say plan for the trip to Machu Picchu sometime...it is amazing, not that the other places are not, but it can be quite and experience.
- November 17, 2008 at 8:06 AM
- Chocolate Shavings said...
Those look absolutely gorgeous! I'll have one now please!
- November 17, 2008 at 10:21 AM
Do we have the exact same travel plans? This is so ironic - You mention Amsterdam and Buenos Aires and Machu Picchu. I went to Amsterdam last winter and Buenos Aires over the summer (both due to being incredibly lucky in having a friend that worked as an intern for United!) A friend and I were just dreaming the other day about going on another vacation and Machu Picchu came up!
As for the alfajores, I have to tell you yours look great and very authentic. I didn't love them when I had one in Buenos Aires as I thought they were too crumbly and dry, but I absolutely loved the dulce de leche!
You can read about my Amsterdam and Buenos Aires travels on my blog if you want! Just type those cities in the search box. :)
- November 17, 2008 at 10:47 AM
Mmmm Dulce.... I'd never get these cookies made, because I am powerless against a can of ddl. And yes, I would eat the entire can before the cookies were finished. Don't judge me.
- November 17, 2008 at 11:51 AM
- Real Live Lesbian said...
You. must. go.
To Macchu Picchu.
I went in March of this year and it is phenomenal. You don't need a guide, so you can do it on the cheap. Fly into Lima and enjoy!
We went to Bolivia first, then Peru, back to Bolivia and to Paraguay. Wouldn't quite recommend THAT. Spending 14 hours on a bus with one bathroom isn't as fun as it sounds.
I want one of those cookies!
- November 17, 2008 at 12:03 PM
- grace said...
every once in awhile i'll make a dessert too delectable to take into work, and i can already see that these would fall into that category. your description of them is amazing (as evidenced by the drool pooling up in my mouth). :)
- November 17, 2008 at 1:17 PM
- flutter said...
ok, I am giving you a challenge. Make something for me, sugar free. I am dying to see what you come up with :)
- November 17, 2008 at 1:29 PM
- Ann said...
CC: You won :)! These cookies ARE devlish - they lasted about 2 seconds in our house.
bren: Cool! I'd love to see those guava bars, those sound really good!
Cindy: I hope you try these! If you do, let me know if they taste how you remember them; I just loved them. I did skip the coconut bc me and hubby don't like it, but other than that, I didn't alter anything. :)
Chocolate shavings: Comin' UP!
Hillary: Wow! We're on the same wave length. I love Amsterdam to no end...and am now just in lust w/ South America. I DO hope to get there in the next 2 years.
CC: Yep...where do you think the rest of that DDL ended up? Yep.
RLL: You've been there!! Wow. So envious. We're dying to go.
Grace: Uh huh, I think you'd have to hoard these, seriously.
Flutter: I am so up for this challenge...it may take a while...but I've got to take this on. :)
- November 17, 2008 at 3:00 PM
Great pictures, these cookies are so adorable! I love Italy, but I too would love to go to SA, especially with the price of travel now.
- November 17, 2008 at 4:33 PM
i have also wnated to go to Machu Pichu for so long, but will have to wait a while; someday. in the meantime, i can easily make these darling cookies and hoard them!
- November 17, 2008 at 7:51 PM
- hungryandfrozen said...
Those cookies look absolutely lush. I'm such a fiend for anything caramel and your photos are gorgeous as usual :) I hear ya about the wanderlust, I've got a bad case of it...but hey, if my one-legged, gout-riddled landlord can make it to Macchu Pichu (honestly!) then you surely can too :D
- November 17, 2008 at 10:39 PM
Dear Ann, I'm so glad you made them and liked them! They look gorgeous and ever so tempting! And yes, the melt-in-your-mouth texture really does it for me too.
- November 18, 2008 at 2:50 AM
- Nic said...
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- November 18, 2008 at 6:10 AM
- Nic said...
Sorry Ann, having a brain freeze today, will blame those cookies!
Meant to say: If only you could see me now Ann, I'm dribbling all over the keyboard at these delicious looking alfajores. I don't blame you for not sharing, me neither!
- November 18, 2008 at 6:32 AM
- Adam said...
Well now I feel retarded... you totally had me going on the Manchu Picchu thing... and then you said psych. Haha good one.
My favorite places to travel? I like going anywhere, currently I'm saving money to go job and interview traveling. Does that count? I mean I'm in a new place, right?
Don't travel to NY now though, we had not sticking to the ground snow last night. Talk about your bummers.
Beautiful cookies by the way, and I hope you can save your money for your trip. Europe sounds awesome.
- November 18, 2008 at 6:59 AM
- RazorFamilyFarms.com said...
Okay... European travel, incredibly fattening (but delightfully so) cookies, and Machu Picchu in one post? I have apparently died on gone to a torturous and orgasmic heaven.
I read a comment above where there is a slight dusting of coconut on those sweet darlings and I about melted out of my comfy Dr. Claw chair (Inspector Gadget's nemesis). Wowsers!
Love to you and many, many thanks for your encouraging words throughout this adoption process. Gosh, I wish we could just fast forward to the day that I can say -- "we have kids!" But... I am not a characted in Harry Potter, dang it all to heck.
In friendship,
- November 18, 2008 at 8:19 AM
- dharmamama said...
Ooh, yummy. These might go in my Christmas baking gifts. If I can make a hundred or so, so I actually have some left to give!
I like to leave the can sealed when I make dulce de leche - I live on the edge that way. As long as the can stays covered in water, and you let the can cool before you open it, it's safe. Or - it has been so far!!
I'm more worried about *me* exploding after making it, than I am about the can exploding, as I make it.
- November 18, 2008 at 9:06 AM
it doesn't count if i was absent from blogging until today. i'm still the shit.
those cookies make me want to be touched by them in my naughty places.
- November 18, 2008 at 11:24 AM
- Nicole said...
Mmmm. Those cookies would be yummy with raspberry jam in the middle!
I just got back from a study abroad in Australia (which was cool), but we took a side trip to New Zealand while we were there... Just saying, it's the absolute, hands-down, best place I've ever been. I will move there someday... Now you've got me travel-lusting.
P.S. I love reading your blog. Thanks for all the great recipes and amusing thoughts!
- November 18, 2008 at 10:39 PM
- kristy said...
Awwww I have been seeing recipes for these everywhere and still haven't made them. But I do feel good, cos I have apparently been making dulce de leche since I was a kid, but to me it was always boiled can of condensed milk. Now I feel soooo much more sophisticated!
(oh and i just found your blog, and i just might think you are the most hilarious person in the world yes i might. and normally i don't really read people's posts, just give a quick skim and see ya later. but there was no stopping me with you. no sir! i have now used approximately two hours or work time giggling. brilliant!)
- November 19, 2008 at 9:41 PM
- kristy said...
oh yeah and i have never pierced the condensed milk can either. so far so good :)
- November 19, 2008 at 9:43 PM
- Brittany said...
After reading the first paragraph, I hated you. I thought you were another one of these wordly assholes that I am jealous of.
2nd paragraph had me loving you again.
Cookies have me drooling everywhere.
- November 20, 2008 at 1:32 AM
- Slyde said...
oooh, i'm with you! i would LOVE to do amsterdam one of these days....
probably a pipe dream tho..
- November 20, 2008 at 12:10 PM
- Lisa said...
mmm, mmm, mmm, - so much butter and sugar, so little time!
- November 20, 2008 at 3:42 PM
- dharmamama said...
I just remembered - a friend of mine used to call dulce de leche made this way (unopened can of sweetened condensed milk) danger pudding! He's actually the one who told me about it; his family used to make it every year at Hanukkah. Danger pudding! Ha.
- November 20, 2008 at 5:04 PM
- vanillasugarblog said...
LOLOLOL! Pseudo travels! Yes, I've been there, many times! Girl you are too funny.
And I love the pictures too, you take such 'food-porn worthy' shots indeed.
Before I die I must go to Bali, Fiji Islands, Bells Beach, and go back to North Shore Hawaii bro.
- November 21, 2008 at 8:38 AM
Ugh.. reading your blog makes me wanna go out and buy an oven. As if I have time to bake these days.
I want to go Italy. Russia. Spain. The Louvre. Sicily. To name but a few ;)
- November 21, 2008 at 11:47 AM
- Leslie said...
Machu Picchu....my sister in law hiked it over the summer..and all the shitting and puking she did..she doesnt recommend it to anyone!!
Love the cookies!
- November 21, 2008 at 7:10 PM
i can list all the places i want to visit in the future, but to be honest, i'm in no hurry just yet because knowing myself, by hook or by crook, i'll find a way to get some cash together to make it on a holiday to those places. However, one place i definitely will kill to visit asap is Egypt. something abt it seduces me and i'm so certain that a trip to egypt will utterly inspire me!
by the way, those cookies are immense...through my laptop, i've already munched on about 20 of em! :D x
- November 23, 2008 at 5:12 PM
- John D. said...
I'd like 1,000 please.
- November 25, 2008 at 10:54 AM
- RazorFamilyFarms.com said...
OMG! I posted!
Don't faint!
- December 1, 2008 at 12:59 PM
- Mallory Elise said...
ah so cute! south american macarons! i saw your photo at taste spotting---where do i want to travel? i juut lived in France for a year, and poked around western europe a bit, but where i want to go now--brazil :)
- December 8, 2008 at 5:06 PM
- Katie Barlow said...
mmm....i love dulce de leche! Great blog! Come check out my holiday cookie list and giveaway at
- December 8, 2008 at 5:10 PM
- Sugar Jones said...
Dulce de leche... mmmmmmm.... my absolute favorite thing in the whole world of sweetnes...
Shhh... don't tell chocolate... she might get bitter.
- December 9, 2008 at 12:45 PM
how weird... i was sitting here with a strong desire to travel and then i read this post and i'm even more depressed. i'm glad it's not just me. i guess these cookies would cheer me up.
- December 17, 2008 at 6:06 PM
- Justine said...
Bookmarking this!!! My mother would bring back these treats for my father when she went to Uruguay to visit her family. This would be a great gift for them both!!
- December 19, 2008 at 4:49 PM
- Cherie said...
Ok. I made alfajores yesterday. Really BAD recipe.I almost gave up on ever making them again.But I will definitely give these a try in the morning. They look delicious!
- January 9, 2009 at 9:25 PM
very useful article. I would love to follow you on twitter.
- February 15, 2010 at 10:18 AM
- OrGreenic said...
These cookies sound heavenly. Thank you for sharing such a delectable recipe.
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Even though we call this project the ACPI project, the software in this project is not really ACPI. The ACPI is supplied by your computer's vendor in the BIOS. The software in this project is a Platform Specific Driver (PSD) and related files and programs that use the ACPI in your computer's BIOS to configure and operate your computer.
This project produces 5 files and a toolkit for program development:
- ACPI.PSD - the Platform Specific Driver that sets up and controls the hardware, and also implements the ACPI Component Architecture which is the interface to your computer's ACPI. This is the main component of the ACPI project. ACPI.PSD normally goes in \OS2\BOOT.
- ACPI32.DLL - The interface between ACPI.PSD and other programs (like AcpiDaemon.exe) so that they can use the ACPI functions in the PSD. This DLL is not required for proper operation of ACPI.PSD, but most programs will not be able to use any ACPI services if you do not install it. ACPI32.DLL normally goes in \OS2\DLL.
- APM.ADD - An Advanced Power Management interface that emulates APM functions using ACPI. This driver is not required for proper operation of ACPI.PSD, but may be required for some older programs that use APM functions. APM.ADD normally goes in \OS2\BOOT.
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We've seen plenty of set photos from The Wolverine, and so far it looks like we were going to see Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) across plenty of locations. One of the settings was a Japanese POW camp, so some of the movie has to take place in the past, right? While that may still be the case, it looks like the majority of the plot will take place in the modern day. We already knew that the movie was standalone in the sense that there wouldn't be many mutants, and it wouldn't pay attention to X-Men Origins: Wolverine. But the question remains: does The Wolverine take place before X-Men or after X-Men: The Last Stand?
Hit the jump for more. The Wolverine opens July 26, 2013.
Speaking to Parade [via Bleeding Cool], Jackman reluctantly revealed a couple details about The Wolverine:
You want to get me into trouble, don't you? [laughs] Okay, the movie takes place after X-Men: The Last Stand. My character is at his lowest. He is supposed to be able to heal himself, but he may encounter someone who has worked out a way to really hurt him.
I forget how Last Stand ended other than Magneto discovering that he hadn't really lost his powers. I guess Wolvie would be a little bummed after having to kill Jean Grey/Phoenix, so I suppose the new movie will see him doing a little soul searching in Japan.
Jackman added,
And there is a cameo from one of the past X-Men in it.
Speculate away on who we'll see in The Wolverine. I'm thinking Jean Grey to haunt Wolverine, which would also establish the timeline for the audience.
Here's the official synopsis for The Wolverine:
Based on the celebrated comic book arc, this epic action-adventure takes Wolverine, the most iconic character of the X-Men universe, to modern day Japan. Out of his depth in an unknown world he faces his ultimate nemesis in a life-or-death battle that will leave him forever changed. Vulnerable for the first time and pushed to his physical and emotional limits, he confronts not only lethal samurai steel but also his inner struggle against his own immortality, emerging more powerful than we have ever seen him before.


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After additional, nuisance bout of food poisoning or something gruesome of that nature it has been a week of gentle eating. It could have been the colossal over indulgence; there was the vomit-precluding list of sev puri Chaat, pakora, sandwiches, cheese, coco-choc ice cream, paprika chocolate…well, you get the picture.
Anyway, the result was a day in bed with very, very frequent visits from a 2 year old that chanted, 'I want mumma, I want mumma'. I tell myself that maybe my body needed this rest; perhaps my body is not cut out for vast and enormous amounts of food or bacteria in sarnies. Whatever the course, a fast followed and then some actual nourishing food.
This recipe is truly refreshing and soothing; it even made my hair feel cleaner. It's like the welcome drink in Thailand when you feel hot, sweaty, tired yet excited in a need-to-sleep-first sort of way. All of the ingredients are gentle. Crisp heat from the radish and bite from the asparagus meets silky wakame (seaweed), and they work gloriously well with nutty brown rice. The broth is fragrant, easy and fresh.
The folk at Holy Lama sent me some of their lemongrass spice drops recently. It is potent. Really potent. I used just enough to fill the tip of the pipette that comes in the packaging and that was enough. The great thing is that I didn't have any annoying bits of lemongrass getting stuck between my teeth but all of the flavour. You could of course just use a stalk of lemongrass and get a lovely impact…just make it and enjoy it.
200g asparagus cut into 2 inch pieces
200g red radish, sliced
2 cloves of garlic
2 tbsp. sesame oil
3-4 spring onions, cut into bite sized pieces
3 tbsp. wakame
One litre of vegetable stock
Red chilli flakes to taste
One tiny drop of lemongrass spice drops or one lemongrass stalk slit open
1 tbsp. rice wine vinegar
125g brown rice
- Cook the brown rice per the packet instruction and leave it to a side
- Soak the wakame in water and leave it to a side.
- Heat the oil in a deep pan and when it is hot add the onion, garlic, asparagus and radish and sauté for two minutes before adding in the vegetable stock, lemongrass, chilli flakes and rice wine vinegar.
- Bring the broth to a simmer and add the brown rice, wakame and cook for a further 5 minutes before serving hot.


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DALLAS (AP) Tony Parker had 21 points and nine assists, Manu Ginobili had several key baskets among his 20 points and the San Antonio Spurs handed the Dallas Mavericks their sixth straight loss, 111-86 on Sunday night.
Dirk Nowitzki had eight points on 3-of-9 shooting a week after making a surprise return in a 38-point loss to the Spurs in San Antonio.
The Spurs led all the way, with Tim Duncan helping a 20-6 start by hitting several jump shots. He finished with 18 points, 10 rebounds and three blocks.
Darren Collison scored 18 points to lead the Mavericks, whose losing streak is their longest since January of their championship season in 2010-11.
Dallas was within five in the third quarter when Ginobili hit a 3-pointer with the shot clock winding down, and he made an even longer 3 with the shot clock inside a second to put San Antonio ahead 80-70. He finished the third quarter the same way he did the second - with a last-second shot that put the Spurs up by 12.
Nowitzki struggled again a week after making his season debut at San Antonio. It was his third game in four nights, and he was limited to 17 minutes Friday against Denver, the second of back-to-back games. He missed his first three shots of the second half before finally hitting a driving layup to get Dallas within six.
Ginobili keyed a late spurt in the first half that turned a five-point lead into a 12-point halftime edge. He assisted on a 3-pointer by Kawhi Leonard and scored the final two baskets of the half, the last a pull-up jumper with less than a second left for a 57-45 lead.
The Spurs ran out to a 20-6 lead on midrange jumpers from Tony Parker, who scored 10 in the first quarter, and a couple of 3-pointers from Danny Green, who had a career-high seven from long range against Dallas a week ago. Green finished with eight points and was 2 of 3 from beyond the arc.
The Mavericks closed the gap late in the first behind Elton Brand, who scored six in the first quarter after going scoreless for the second time this season two nights earlier against Denver. Brand scored 14 points in this one.
O.J. Mayo, Dallas' leading scorer, was held under 10 points for the fourth time in five games. He came in averaging 9 points on 33-percent shooting the previous four games and finished with eight on 4 of 14 shooting. Green blocked two of his 3-point attempts in the second half, including one after Mayo tried a pump fake that instead just gave Green enough time to get there before Mayo shot it.
NOTES: Mavericks F Vince Carter made his first start after coming off the bench the first 30 games. ... Spurs G Gary Neal missed his third straight game with a strained right calf. ... Mayo had a career-high five steals in Friday's loss to Denver. But he also had six turnovers for the third straight game. ... Green was 14 of 19 from 3-point range the previous three games. He was 7 of 8 when the Spurs set a franchise record with 20 3-pointers a week ago against Dallas. ... Oklahoma football players drew some boos when they were shown on the big board. The Sooners play Texas A&M in the Cotton Bowl at Cowboys Stadium on Jan. 4. Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel of Texas A&M attended a Mavs game a few days after winning the award.


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We were all sorts of hyped up for Monster Energy Supercross' Anaheim 1 last weekend, but there's absolutely no reason to turn down the excitement this weekend in Phoenix. Hey, Davi Millsaps is sporting the red plate as the points leader, so, if anything, there are even more riders and more contenders for the win tonight than we even expected last week.
Track here looks good. It has a whoop section that is a little tougher than last week's two easy sections, a sand turn and some jumps that the riders are, get this, doubling over. In fact in one section, they are even tripling the jumps!
Okay, kidding aside practice has just begun so it's hard to pin down how the track will shape up. It's pretty sloppy right now, with a lot of water thrown down. It's also super cold inside and outside the building, for whatever that's worth. One triple is very large and even the top 450SX riders were struggling to hit the landing perfectly early in untimed practice. Also, the whoop section has a huge bowl berm after it, and the whoops stop about 20 feet before the turn, giving the riders plenty of time to set up a a big block pass. Expect to see some aggressive moves there.
High-quality iPhone track photo.
Weege (high quality) photo
Here's some news and notes:
-- Blake Baggett busted up, in his words "a whole bunch of stuff" in his hand and wrist last week during that crazy Jessy Nelson-inspired first-turn carnage. Blake didn't even crash, but he was hit by some cartwheeling bikes. On Monday, he was fitted for a cast on his hand. Then on Monday afternoon, he cut it off! "I had it on for about six hours," he said. How will it go? He has no idea because he couldn't even ride during the week, but, he looked okay during the untimed practice session that just took place.
-- James Stewart spoke to us in a Racer X Films video we'll post shortly. Says he's not going to use the knee as an excuse, and he's just going to try to get through the first few races. Or, just listen to him in his own words in the video we'll post in a bit. He looked okay during the untimed practice session.
-- Davi Millsaps says life hasn't changed much after winning last week and taking the points lead. "I'm going to be an underdog all year," he said. "The way I see it is, the people who believed in me will always believe in me, and the people who don't believe in me won't."
-- Ryan Dungey will probably not run the new air shock he ran last week. Roger DeCoster says it worked well, and they took notes and are looking to get a second version of it based on what they learned last week--and when they get that second version, they'll try it again.
-- Broc Tickle says he was happy with the way he rode last week, but he was a little tight (who wasn't?) and hopes to ride better here. "We had a really good week testing to so I'm excited," he says. Also, 250SX rider Max Anstie is backed by Europe's Rockstar Suzuki team in the GPs, so he has access to the Suzuki SX test track here in the U.S. Anstie worked with Ricky Carmichael all week at the Suzuki track this week and is happy with his progress.
-- Justin Barcia was pretty nervous last week, and even though he won his heat race, he didn't ride as well as he could. Says his trainer Jeff Stanton, "That wasn't even 80 percent of what I've seen him do during the week. He just wasn't himself." Honestly, we could probably say that every single rider in last week's race was dealing with some form of opening-race jitters. So let's reset it all and go racing here in round two.


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Wednesday, June 10, 2009
5 5 5
The thing about the Mother is if she doesn't surrender and sacrifice herself for the well-being of her children at the time, then she becomes a negative mother, a Gorgon. She drinks alcohol while I am in the womb, she doesn't breastfeed me, and she is not a present mother. She is half the time drunk, the other half insane. She is not what you'd call a good mother. I don't regret or resent the kind of mother that she was, but I don't have any illusions about it either. She doesn't either. She's not able to let go of being a mother because she feels that she screwed up, so her regret is causing her to hold on to that... but now it's too late to make amends, and it's not really necessary either.
What the Mother needs to do now is be exactly what we need her to be, which is not a mother but a warrior... To meet her death standing tall and looking forward without flinching and without clinging... To show her children how it's done... to surrender to the power of Pluto and be transformed.
Whether she's going to do this or not depends, to some extent, on how much we can let go of that part that is bonded to her. That part will dissolve into nothingness in time for a greater dissolution to come.
23 comments:
- John Lennon said...
Mother, you had me but I never had you. I needed you, you didn't need me. so I just gotta tell you... goodbye, goodbye...
- 9:25 pm, June 11, 2009
- Bowie said...
Don't fake it baby, lay the real thing on me
The church of man, love
Is such a holy place to be
Make me baby, make me know you really care
Make me jump into the air
- 10:12 pm, June 11, 2009
There is a theme here.
Mothers who are cold and distant, yet not necessarily bad, often produce sensitive ("un-masculine", almost androgynous) male sons. These offspring, firstly feeling ill-fated, can accept what has happened and what is, leverage their unique wounds and transmute them into spiritual awareness.
At first what seems unfortunate, is really a gift. Personal evolution and individuation can be painful, tension and suffering can be catalysts. The Mother was doing "the Work".
Wounded family lines are somewhat interesting. If you were a hyper-dimensional entity looking to manifest interestingly on Earth, (bear with me), would you chose an ordinary, boring, stable family where nothing happens - or one that forces you (the ego) to rapidly differentiate, self-analyse, transform and reestablish contact with the Self?
Sincere thanks for sharing Aeolus.
- 10:14 pm, June 11, 2009
- Billy the Kid said...
Billy, they don't like you to be so free
- 10:25 pm, June 11, 2009
- Billy Corgan said...
Well crucify the insincere tonight
Well make things right, well feel it all tonight
Well find a way to offer up the night tonight
The indescribable moments of your life tonight
The impossible is possible tonight
Believe in me as I believe in you, tonight
- 10:56 pm, June 11, 2009
i would love to do a podcast with you
dan .
- 8:54 am, June 12, 2009
"Welcome to the Consciousness machine" NeoGnostic.SuperSaturatedSolutions.
- 10:45 am, June 12, 2009
Thunderbolts of Ecstasy,perfumed with droplets of eternity.........
Life undeniably rolls on with the unquenchable lust for Death and Serenity...
an all is perceived in the eye of the perceiver.
in the brilliant void,where all is one none and all, the dance of Love unfolds/is created by those wise souls...lol
- 11:01 am, June 12, 2009
lets find new ways to create/integrate!.....are we the rebel seers or what?!.....
- 12:08 pm, June 12, 2009
no i,m a little dawggie looking for GOD
NO i,m a real fragment of LUCIFER
no i.m just trying to erase my ego/satan
Real MEN Bond this way!....
no no no no NONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!
Wake up !!!!!!!!!!!!no i don,t want to..
p.s. don,t take this too personally...lol.!.....
- 12:19 pm, June 12, 2009
Everybody is looking for...
- 12:27 pm, June 12, 2009
Monster Tonkster , get ready for se apocalypse ,it vill be black!
- 12:59 pm, June 12, 2009
Chick with a Dick.. chill Babe , everything,s gonna work out just fine!,,,,well after everyone gets their just dues!,i guess........
- 1:05 pm, June 12, 2009
I've just realized that i am not responsible for other peoples experiential loops/trips.and on that note i'm gonna say goodbye.
Thankyou Jason/Aeolus for all your inspirations,revelations,and im/personal transformations.Blessed be Angel! ,
love DivaDancer.
- 10:46 pm, June 12, 2009
- Goddessrocks said...
there comes a time when we all need to truely get that our Mothers only "birthed" us and it's the journey we chose for our own awakening and if even a small place in our heart was opened by the initial bonding or touch then our purpose in life is to continue to open...even in our suffering...for the greatest Love is to let go ...wasn't it a dream anyway?
- 4:48 pm, June 13, 2009
in the name of surrender ...
in the year i was born...
- 4:33 am, June 15, 2009
continuing on in this mother thmeme...
- 4:48 am, June 15, 2009
to be honest, i find the internet a little nebulous and obscuring often of the human spirit behind the lines,so to speak...the typed word is hardly the multi\\dimentional spirit that you feel within/without or the dancing eternity of ever fulfilling dreams before thee!....lol
- 5:09 am, June 15, 2009
a little light snack before the evening deluge.a bientot!
- 6:22 am, June 15, 2009
- Goddessrocks said...
Dear Anonymous if you find the Internet nebulous and obscuring of your human spirit then share who you are and allow your spirit to be known and shared.....Isn't this what we all want CONNECTIOON?
- 10:14 am, June 15, 2009
CONNECTIOON?...love it...what i meant was , that it is very hard to spontaneously and holistically interact in a way that's more than just a bunch of passing ideas or a very limited notion of who you're relating to....sound and vision are a lot better!...anyway,take care,and have fun!...D.
ps the tv provided some defined channels as collective realities and now with the internet you can create your own! ...except i'm not sure if people are really any the freer .?or have any better friends...?....etc...
- 12:49 pm, June 15, 2009
- Goddessrocks said...
Actually I'm not sure either...my closest friends are ones I can touch and talk to however there have been a few CONNECTIONS through the Internet that have managed to reach into my heart and open spaces....that feels good. but generally involves some "getting" to know .... have a good one. do you have your own blog?
- 2:03 pm, June 15, 2009
are you Italian?
- 12:15 am, June 17, 2009


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We're Freedom Socks! And, after another random "season break", we're back. This week we run over whats been in the freedom news recently, get all angry about normal people, do an interview with one of our own hosts about the AGPLmail project. Then, we talk about free software and anarchy, before finishing off with a piece of listner feedback.
00:00 Intro - we shake it up a little (lyrics)
01:20 News
- Idling Ibex?
- Give 1 Get 1 in Europe
- Gratis CodeWeavers marketing ploy
- Making real money with free software
- Shuttleworth Spends more Pennies
- Theora moves steadily forwards - where is the big push?
- New GFDL is good for Wikipedia, some people aren't happy
- Debbian on Hacked G1… Hacked? WTF!
- Netbooks?
- Microsneakiness
- Highfield ends up at MS, we are not surprised
- OSC moans at BBC
- But, BBC aren't all evil
- Free software desktop cheaper to maintain, omgz
- Bilski ruling - no more software patents?
- Yays
24:00 Two Minutes Hate - The Proles (Ordinary People)
29:10 "Interview" - Ben Webb - AGPLMail
40:30 Speed Review - Wine
40:50 Clever Segment - Free software and anarchy
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The president comes to comfort Newtown
NEWTOWN -- The wounds still raw from 27 dead women and children -- the worst grade-school shooting in U.S. history -- President Barack Obama paid his respects Sunday night to the families who lost loved ones in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre.
Then he put Congress on notice about toughening gun laws in the wake of the fourth mass shooting during his tenure.
"We can't tolerate this anymore," Obama said in the Newtown High School auditorium. "These tragedies must end. And to end them, we must change. Are we really prepared to say we're powerless in the face of such carnage?"
Obama spent more than an hour with the families and local first responders at Newtown High. And then, the president shifted seamlessly from grief counselor to chief executive and back again.
In every way, Obama told them, the families of these victims were not alone at this interfaith service.
The room -- and the world -- was filled with heavy hearts over this senseless loss of life at Sandy Hook School. The shooter also killed his mother.
"We're all parents and they're all our children," said Obama, who took the stage at 8:37 p.m. "This is our first task, caring for children. By that measure, can we truly say as a nation that we're meeting that obligation? I've been reflecting on this the last few days and the answer is, no."
As the president spoke each Sandy Hook School staffer's name here, the sobs in the auditorium were audible.
It was even worse when he read the first names of all the little children.
"Oh, God," murmured a man next the media. His wife buried her face in her hands. A spasm hit the audience. Heads bobbed, shoulders
shook. When he reached the last name, his audience was reaching to seat mates, touching them.
Bob Gibbons, whose wife teaches at Sandy Hook Elementary School and survived the shooting Friday, said he was glad the town had a chance to grieve and get together.
"For everybody else in town, it's been hard to connect with each other and this was good for the kids, it was good for the teachers, it was good for everybody," Gibbons said.
Gibbons also said he appreciated Obama's message of stricter gun laws: "I think it's time. If this doesn't get people making a change, I don't know what will."
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy introduced Obama, recounting that Friday's shooting was the toughest in Obama's presidency.
"Each time the day gets a little bit longer, I will think about the lives that might have been and the lives that were full of grace," Malloy said.
Many of those in the school's auditorium were young children who survived the shooting, including Peter Horan.
The 7-year-old was in music class when Adam Lanza barged into the school and unleashed a barrage of bullets that killed 20 children and six adults who worked at the school.
"He didn't close his eyes," said Tom Horan, Peter's father. "He kept telling us about the bodies, and asking whether their bodies were going to be there Monday."
Horan, an occupational therapist, was in Waterbury when he learned of the attack.
"If the gunman had gone down the other hallway, (Peter's) would have been the first classroom," he said.
The second-grader went to grief counseling sessions over the weekend and has been sleeping with his parents.
"He's not the same," his father said. "But at least we have him."
Members of the state's congressional delegation briefly met with Obama before the vigil. While waiting for the president to conclude his visits with the victims' families, the group talked about a legislative response to the shooting.
U.S. Rep. Jim Himes, D-Conn., said a memorial resolution by Congress is only a start. There must be, at a minimum, a new effort to
restrict the ownership of high-capacity magazines.
"I think there is an infusion of energy, at least among the seven of us," Himes said, referring to the state delegation.
"I think we're at a turning point, a tipping point," said U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., who was the state attorney general and U.S. attorney in Connecticut before his election to the Senate in 2010.
A line of people a quarter-mile long waited in a cold mist to go through metal detectors to get into the memorial service.
Many were turned away, as there were only 800 seats to accommodate the overflow crowd.
Those who stuck it out were given fleece blankets by volunteers from the American Red Cross, which presented many children with stuffed toy dogs.
Derek and Tricia Bobowick sat on the aisle of the auditorium with their son, D.J., 9, who was in music class at Sandy Hook Elementary School when the violence erupted.
"The longest car ride of my life," Tricia Bobowick said of her frantic trip to be reunited with her son at the Sandy Hook firehouse.
The couple said they were still processing the tragedy -- just like their son.
"He loved that school," the boy's mother said.
Amy Martin, 17, waited in line with her family for about two hours to get into the memorial service. The Newtown High School senior passed out decals printed with the words, "Sandy Hook 12-14-12," and a child's palm print.
Amy is selling the decals to help the victims of the shooting. Her next-door neighbor has a grandchild who lost 12 friends in the massacre.
"Obviously, because it's such a small community, everyone knows everyone," Amy said.
Newtown First Selectman Pat Llodra introduced the governor at the memorial service.
"Newtown is the place that loves children," said Llodra, who vowed that the community would overcome the tragedy. "It is the angry and desperate act of a confused man. I know that Newtown will prevail, that we will not fall to violence."
Obama said Newtown showed bravery and resilience during its darkest hours.
The president spoke of the child who tried to reassure his teacher by saying he knew karate and he would lead the way to safety.
"This is how Newtown will be remembered," Obama said. "With time and God's grace, that love will see you through."
An unexpected coda to the emotional night came long after the crowd left. A choir of 11 sang in the foyer of the high school for an audience of police officers gathered to debrief before going off duty.
The choir, called NAPS, was from Huntsville, Ala. They wanted to console.
"We drove all night," said Ezrica Bennett, 21, who led the group.
They wanted to somehow comfort the families, who were out of reach. So they sang for cops.
They sang in a foreign tongue, an African song in the Tonga language, Bennett said.
The cops stood mute, then they all applauded. Bennett explained the song was one they sang on missions.
"It says we all have been called to do good works," she said.
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This is going to be a banner year for the logistics industry, says Rosalyn Wilson in the 25th Annual State of Logistics Report.
The economy last year was not stellar and business inventories plummeted in the first period this year as a consequence of bad weather, but freight is gaining now, Wilson says in a Tuesday presentation at the National Press Club.
Wilson prepared the report for the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals. It is presented by Penske.
The tough first period this year is not a harbinger of what's to come, she says. The Consumer Confidence Index is rising, as are retail sales and home construction. More jobs are being created and unemployment claims are falling.
"The health of the freight market is a solid indicator of the direction the economy is moving," she says in her report. "All indications are that freight will grow moderately for the rest of the year and the economy should follow suit."
The driver shortage remains trucking's number one issue, she says: utilization rates are close to 100% and capacity is falling.
While rates were flat last year, tonnage was up 6.1%, Class 8 registrations dropped 4.5% and bankruptcies rose.
Driver wages are in line with similar industries, with bonuses for fuel efficiency, safety and experience. But regulations such as the new hours of service rule are reducing productivity and may contribute to high turnover rates.
Overall logistics costs as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product increased slightly in 2013 but still grew more slowly than GDP.
2013 was a complicated year, Wilson says. It started slowly, grew strongly in the middle and ended in a deep dive.
"Freight shipment volume experienced five three-year lows during 2013, while freight payments hit three-year highs in eight of the 12 months."
The effect of this turbulence, combined with rising costs for drivers, equipment and maintenance, was the increase in bankruptcies, she says.
Real GDP growth declined in 2013 compared to 2012 – 1.9% from 2.8% – a deceleration that continued into the first period of this year. A variety of factors contributed to this decline, including the shutdown of the federal government due to fighting over the budget.
But before the fourth period of last year growth was strong, due to rising household net worth driven by gains among the most affluent and modest gains in manufacturing.
Wilson forecasts that freight will continue to gain this year and accelerate in the second period.


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Sorry to bother you folks.
Unfortunate personal challenges have taken me away from our forum family, and I apologize.
I'm going to be a little bit scattered with my worry.
Our collective hearts have been broken with the loss of Shipwreck Landing, and our hopes are high for the strength regarding the rebuilding and recovery of the land where our souls live.
So...that said, how's Aqua Bistro coming along?
Like so many others, it's our favorite place to melt into vacation, and hope Marc is rebuilding/repairing.
Thanks to News of St. John, Jenn has given us loads of relief regarding others we've met over the years, and Jenn- just a reminder, YOU ARE LOVED!
Thank you for keeping us STJ lovers informed about the progress.
I can't wait to get back to marry My Sweet Amy, on Maho, without those perfect palm trees...
I told you that it'd be "scattered ".
How's Doug from Crabby's...?
Thanks for your understanding!
I miss everything so much.


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What We Do
The Bladder and Bowel Community (B&BC) is the UK wide service for people with bladder and bowel control problems. B&BC provides information and support services, including a confidential helpline, for anyone affected by these conditions as well as their families, carers and healthcare professionals.
B&BC was officially formed in June 2008 and incorporates the objectives and missions of Incontact (National Action on Incontinence formed in 1989) and the Continence Foundation, which closed in May 2008.
With an estimated 14 million people in the UK with a bladder control problem and 6.5 million with a bowel control problem that is bothersome, our work is vital if we are to change the way in which patients are helped and supported.
Our Vision and Aims
Our mission is to inspire change and create opportunities to enable people with bladder and bowel control problems to have a voice and equal choice.
We aim to:-
- Raise awareness of bladder and bowel control problems amongst the general public and healthcare professionals.
- Give access to information and support regarding the treatments, products and services for people with these conditions.
Ultimately we will work towards making a real difference to the lives of those affected by bladder and bowel control problems and deliver the kind of services that will meet the needs of those people affected by these issues
We believe in listening to the needs of people affected by bladder and bowel problems and provides advice and support to patients by means of the helpline, supported by specialist continence nurses and continence physiotherapists.
B&BC works in partnership with professional organisations in the field to ensure that everyone who needs help and support gets free access to all the services that are available. We also provides information and support regarding treatments, products and clinical services so that people with these conditions are then able to make an educated and informed choice about their care.
B&BC works with researchers to improve treatments and design innovative products for bladder and bowel disorders. We speak on behalf of those affected and those close to them in order to influence policy makers and service providers in both the private and public sectors.
B&BC also works closely with healthcare professionals, providing information and support materials for patients to improve standards of management and care. We believe all patients should get effective modern help, which will enable them to enjoy a greater quality of life.